‘Take ye the rings off your fingers,
Put them on his right hand,
To let him know, when he doth awake,
His love was at his command.’
8.
8.2 ‘hals-bane,’ neck-bone. See The Twa Corbies ([p. 82]), 4.1.
8.3 ‘wittering,’ witness.
She pu’d the broom flower on Hive Hill,
And strew’d on’s white hals-bane,
And that was to be wittering true